The homoerotic art of the 20th century left unseen for decades:
engaged in a series of clandestine affairs with economist John Maynard Keynes, future politician Arthur Hobhouse, and writer Lytton Strachey. Lytton brought Duncan into London's celebrated Bloomsbury Set, a coterie of English artists, writers, and intellectuals that got its start in the homes of painter Although Vanessa was married, she fell deeply in love with Duncan, bore him a daughter, and became his companion for more than 40 years.
While Duncan continued to engage in illicit liaisons, he also pursued his forbidden passion for erotic art. During the 40s and 50s, he crafted sensuous drawings exploring themes of sexuality, intimacy, desire, gender, and identity. Recognising the danger these works posed in and of themselves, in 1959, Duncan gave them to his friend, the painter and collector Edward le Bas, in a folder marked,"These drawings are very private.
Like many queer archives, Duncan's drawings were protected at all costs. They reemerged in 2020 when theatre designer Norman Coates donated them to the -- an act that made headlines as the lost collection of 422 drawings was valued at £2 million. Now the public will finally be able to see what has been hidden for so long.
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